Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chinese say: "The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names." Inevitably, under pressure of Soviet threat and promise, Europeans tend to call appeasement "neutralism." Even among the U.S. people and their leaders, there are those who snap at Soviet bait or become confused about Soviet intentions...
...balanced Dartmouth team with 16, but Dick Fairley's rebounding was the decisive factor in the Green victory. The tall junior, a substitute earlier in the season, started the contest; Coach Daggy Julian didn't even use two of his standouts, Captain Pete Geithner and Paul Wisdom. These two men had starred in Dartmouth's two previous wins over the Crimson this winter...
...game dope tabbed 6-8 center Paul Wisdom as Dartmouth's chief threat, so Crimson coach Norm Shepard covered him with Dick Manning, probably the varsity's top defensive "big" man. But the visitors employed a double-pivot--with Fairley as Wisdom's partner...
...combination was fatal. Even though Shepard shifted Manning to Fairley in the second quarter, and assigned Harry Sacks or Ed Blodnick to Wisdom, the "twin-centers" repeatedly managed either to score or to clear the ball out to the unerring guards, which was just as costly...
...Republican appointee to the National Labor Relations Board, Beeson came to Washington with a long and respected record as a company representative in labor-management relations. But with the very first question asked him in committee hearings, Beeson showed that his wisdom was no burden on his tongue. Yes, said Beeson, he had once lectured on economics at Rutgers. That answer would have sufficed, but Beeson rambled on: "I was frankly there to try to explain the American enterprise system from the businessman's viewpoint." Asked the C.I.O.'s James Carey, a later witness: Would not Beeson also...